To what extent does landscaping typically add value to a property for the purposes of appraisal and re-financing, compared to other improvements? 

But my YouTuber guru told me he wouldn’t take me seriously and let me buy more of his courses until I set up 12 LLC’s with his affiliate LLC creation company for $3k each!

But I also sometimes think owning only 1 property in LA would be less stressful and a more reasonable mortgage payment would improve my quality of life.

Ideally AI could improve the property analytics that shape listing prices, a competitive advantage over other brokers.

One of the things you can start doing is reviewing your credit score and work on improving it if needed.

In my case, I wasn’t sure my land qualified because it was essentially my back yard, but because it was always a separate lot from my house, I was able to still do it because raw land without improvements on it is always considered investment property.

Let someone else buy the fringe areas and improve them first.To be direct, I can't imagine an appraiser using 5-year-old comps.

Focus on the value landlords bring through property improvements, market dynamics driving rents, and contributions to community revitalization.

Your profit is the difference between your adjusted cost basis and your net sale.Adjusted cost basis is your cost of acquisition plus any capitalized improvements minus depreciation.It is very possible that you could sell a property you have refinanced and generate no cash at the sale but still have a big tax bill because you sell it for more than you purchased it for.

Find Brandon's videos on YouTube for the "four square" method of analyzing homes and practice.